Fashion gets stompy. Dunno where this one's come from precisely - though it might be the precursor to a revival of the look of 1991 but it's weirdly cool and do-able. Wear with a frock if your legs are sufficiently long; or with a crop skinny jean.

2 Work the Neneh Cherry Redux

Remember her Buffalo Stance period? The tight black Lycra mini dresses, gleaming white High Tops, crop gold bomber jackets, preposterous gold-chain action? No? Well: it was fabulous. And it is about to be reborn. Antipodium and American Apparel are seeing to that, and may we say: Yay! An excellent revival! Perhaps our favourite ever.

3Do nude nails

You know how the old adage goes: when the It bag is bright, the nails must be light-er, pink. (Yes, we totally made that up just now.)

4 Read the Thughtful Dresser

Hurrah for the extremely clever Linda Grant's latest book on fashion - a collection of essays and notions and fashion-related stories. It's not out till March, but why not pre-order at Amazon?

5 Buy a chunky necklace

The more noise they make - and the harder it is for you to stand fully erect while wearing them - the better.

6 Grow your eyebrows

Big. Bushy. Back. (We draw the line at monobrows.)

7 Persist with leather strides

Cos they're on-going into the new season. Just ask Givenchy.

8 Browse lookbook.nu

Hilarious street-style blog, for the very young, very thin and stunningly pretentious. Mesmerising.

9 Carry flat pumps

At all times. For when the wooden wedges hurt too much.

10 Ignore all diktats on current trends and decide to dress like your favourite character from series two of the brilliant Mad Men

When all else fails, we will bechannelling the frankly amazing Joan Holloway.